Doing the right thing willingly using the insights of behavioral decision research for better environmental decisions

The Behavioral Foundations of Public Policy

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 380-397

  Weber, Elke U ^a  

^a Howard Hughes Medical Institute   (United States)

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